Alumni News Roundup
December 5, 2025
Our alumni have shared several recent career updates and publications that grew out of their time at the GHI. From new academic appointments to articles and books based on fellowship research, these achievements reflect the ongoing work of former fellows across the Institute’s programs in Washington, Berkeley, and beyond.
- Former Visiting Fellow Simon Unger (2018-19)will start a new position as Assistant Professor of Modern European Christianity at Princeton's Theological Seminary. After his fellowship in DC, Simon was a research fellow at the GHI Rome. Most recently, he coordinated the transnational research group The Global Pontificate of Pius XII. Catholicism in a Divided World, 1945–1958.
- Former Tandem Fellow Prakash Kumar (Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Penn State) has published the book he was working on during his fellowship in Washington: A History of India’s Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy (CUP, 2025).
- Karina Kriegesmann, who was a visiting fellow in Latin American History at the Pacific Office in 2022, published an article based on her research conducted in Berkeley: Solidaridad a menor escala: de las reacciones a las acciones del Emergency Committee to Aid Latin American Scholars dirigido por latinoamericanistas de Estados Unidos a raíz del golpe de 1973 en Chile, which appeared in the journal Entre América y el mundo. Actores, ideas y circulaciones, siglos XVI a XX, edited by Antonio Ibarra, Stefan Rinke, and Carlos Riojas.
- Erica Lansberg (National Word War II Museum, New Orleans), who was a Visiting Doctoral Fellow (2022-23), recently published her dissertation Encounters in the Rubble: American Interactions with German Children and Youth in Postwar Germany with De Gruyter.